May 31, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Megatelecom, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, intends to deploy scores of Edge data centers nationwide and expand its fiber backbone. Following the fiber expansion, the company will construct a data center at the site. Megatelecom plans to repeat this process until 2028 when the company will have "dozens of data centers" in multiple states and a fiber network spanning the region.
The data facilities will be Edge facilities, with 60 to 100 racks per facility. The company presently runs a total of three data centers in Brazil: Ribeirão Preto and São José do Rio Preto in São Paulo state and Goiania in Goiás state. These data centers predominantly support the agricultural business sector.
Megatelecom is collaborating with Union Sistemas e Energia to create the Edge-fiber network. The company's current fiber backbone stretches about 8,000 miles, primarily in the state of Sao Paulo but also in Goias. Currently, the territories are not interconnected.
The development of the first Edge data center will begin in Minas Gerais and will then spread northward throughout the country. The corporation is also constructing a data center in Brasilia before expanding to the south and east. Their primary aim is to bring data centers closer to businesses and users, away from the country's present-day data center hub in Santana do Parnaiba.
Megatelecom provides enterprise and Internet service providers with connectivity and data transport services. The company operates these out of the 40 or so third-party data centers, including those run by Equinix, Ascenty, and Scala, where it also hosts PoPs currently housed in its own data centers.
